Sobralia warszewiczii Rchb.f. 1852

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Common Name Warscewicz' Sobralia [Polish Orchid Coillector in Central and South America 1800's]

Flower Size 5 1/4"" [13 cm]

Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 5 to 1850 meters as a giant sized, cool to warm growing terrestrial with a robust, erect stem carrying plicate, basally clasping, elliptic-oval, acute or acuminate leaves and blooms at most any time of the year on a short, terminal, successively flowered inflorescence with fragrant, short-lived flowers

Synonyms Sobralia amparoae Schltr. 1923; Sobralia hawkesii A.H. Heller 1966

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1175 Dodson 1984